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«Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.»
«It's nice being young, but it's nothing I could maintain over a long period of time»
«I start to feel like I can?t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don?t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don?t know the answer, I know only that I can?t. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I?ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.»
«Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.»
«I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.»
«It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies»
«It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.»
«I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.»
«I maintain that some Jew wrote it (the Book of James) who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any»
«I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.»

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